Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as tar.
- To strike to the earth.
Examples
“Monday, October 20, 2008 at 04: 07 PM tourner autour du pot - to beat around the bush payer les pots cassés - to pick up the pieces un pot de terre contre un pot de fer - someone weak up against someone strong (the pot de terre is a clay pot, against an iron pot, un pot de fer)”
“This little pied-à-terre is worth something in the region of £500,000 according to the newspapers.”
“Rustic homes and stone cabanos are sprinkled across the hillside with terraces of their own, in terre cuite* and iron, covered with bright red bougainvillea, periwinkle-blue liseron* and other colorful and climbing flowers.”
“I receive this flash-priority hush-hush ukase from S directing me to this pied-à-terre from the third — no, second — circle of hell.”
“Pommes itself is a shortening of pommes de terre, literally “apples from soil,” as in “earth apples,” French for “potatoes.””
“I am to carry la pomme de terre grand, while Ludmilla must be content with her humble beet!”
“I with terre Kerry all the best and my prayer is up on you and your family as a whole.”
“Once the house sells, Mr. Sanborn said he is considering a smaller Manhattan pied – à – terre downtown.”
“Heureux ceux qui sont morts pour la terre charnelle,”
“« Je vais proposer au président Obama, avec qui j'aurai l'occasion de m'entretenir dans les heures qui viennent, que les États-Unis, le Brésil, le Canada, et d'autres encore, prennent l'initiative de convoquer une grande conférence pour la reconstruction et le développement en Haïti », a-t-il indiqué à l'issue d'une réunion ministérielle consacrée au tremblement de terre qui a, selon les estimations, fait des dizaines de milliers de victimes.”
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